Background*

Dr. Dov S. Zakheim, Ph.D. serves as a Senior Advisor of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Dr. Zakheim served as a Vice President of Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation. He served as a Senior Vice President of Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., and served as its Vice President. From 2001 to April 2004, Dr. Zakheim served as Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), Chief Financial Officer for the Department of Defense, and also served as Principal Advisor ... to the Secretary of Defense on financial and budgetary matters, leading over 50, 000 staff, developing and managing the world’s largest budgets, and negotiating five major defense agreements with US allies and partners. From 2002 to 2004, he was DOD’s coordinator of civilian programs in Afghanistan. He also helped organize the 2003 New York (UN) and Madrid Donors conferences for Iraq reconstruction. From 1987 to 2001, he was both Corporate Vice President of System Planning Corporation, a technology and analysis firm based in Arlington, Va. and Chief Executive Officer of its subsidiary, SPC International Corp. During the 2000 presidential campaign, he served as a Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to Governor Bush. From 1985 to March 1987, Dr. Zakheim was Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Planning and Resources in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Policy), playing an active role in the Department's system acquisition, strategic planning, programming and budget processes. Dr. Zakheim held several other DOD posts from 1981 to 1985. Earlier, he was a principal analyst in the National Security and International Affairs Division of the Congressional Budget Office. Dr. Zakheim has served on numerous government, corporate, non-profit and charitable boards. His government service includes the United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad from 1991 to 1993; the Task Force on Defense Reform from 1997; the Board of Visitors of the Department of Defense Overseas Regional Schools from 1998 to 2001; and Defense Science Board task forces on "The Impact of DOD Acquisition Policies on the Health of the Defense Industry" in2000 and “Urgent Operational Needs” in 2009. He serves as Chairman of the National Intelligence Council’s International Business Practices Advisory Panel, and is a member of the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan; the Defense Business Board, which he helped establish, the Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel, the Secretary of the Navy’s Advisory Board and the Council on Foreign Relations; and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Dr. Zakheim serves as Member of Advisory Board at Defense Finance and Accounting Service. He has been a Director at ISO Group, Inc. since 2010. He serves as a Director of IDT Telecom, Inc. and Chemonics International, Inc. Dr. Zakheim has been a Director of TTM Technologies Inc. since July 2010. He serves as a Director of Standard Aero and Clear Path Technologies. He serves as a Board Member at Defense Business Board. He holds a B.A. degree, summa cum laude, from Columbia University. Dr. Zakheim also studied at the London School of Economics & Political Science. He holds a Doctorate In Economics and Politics at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, where he held three graduate and post-graduate fellowships.

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